When Yumi Ishikawa, a 32-year-old model and actress, tweeted in January her belief that employers in Japan should not be allowed to require women to wear high heels to work, she didn’t expect to cause ...
Tokyo -- Japanese women are saying, "No," to high heels in what's been dubbed the #KuToo movement, a play on the words for "shoes" and "agony" and an allusion to the #MeToo hashtag. The #MeToo ...
More than 19,000 people in Japan have signed a petition to ban office dress codes which force women to wear high heels to work. Tokyo artist, writer and feminist Yumi Ishikawa launched the petition ...